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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on May 25, 2019, 04:26:09 pm
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Cambodian Authorities Close Polluting Chinese Casino
2019-05-24
Authorities in southwestern Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province have shut down a Chinese-owned casino accused of polluting an adjacent beach following the casino’s defiance of orders to cease operations, sources said on Friday.
The Jin Ding Hotel and Casino located on Koh Rong Samloem Island, a popular tourist destination, was ordered to close in March because it was operating without a license and releasing untreated sewage water directly into the sea.
That order and a follow-up notice to Jin Ding’s owner to shut the casino down had been ignored, sources said.
Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/casino-05242019150217.html (https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/casino-05242019150217.html)
Strange story.
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Cambodia?
From the killing fields to a popular tourist destination?
Who could have predicted that one...?